Prisoner 666 · Whitechapel

121 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 30-31 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
PRISONER 666 · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 68 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 5-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 32-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 11 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 15 sections: 30 keep time, 74 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-19.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART AH
PART AQ
PART AZ
PART S9
PART S11
PART BU
OUTRO
15 groovesSAHS2AQAZ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prisoner 666?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Prisoner 666 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Prisoner 666?

16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Whitechapel drum parts

EVERY WHITECHAPEL CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →